Changes CCHE Policies and Procedures Section 1 Part N

5.00 Process to Seek a Concurrent Enrollment Exception

House Bill 18-1052 established a process (C.R.S §23-1-109(6)) to facilitate local education provider participation in a Concurrent Enrollment course or program, pursuant to §22-35-112, C.R.S., with an institution of higher education that is outside of the institution’s geographic service area in which the local education provider is located. This policy shall apply when the local education provider requests, in writing, a Concurrent Enrollment course or program from an institution of higher education within which geographic service area the local education provider resides. The institution may decline, in writing, to provide the requested Concurrent Enrollment course or program. If the institution fails to respond to the local education provider within 45 days of the request, the institution shall be deemed to have declined to provide the requested Concurrent Enrollment course or program.

5.01 If an institution in the local education provider’s Commission-approved geographic service areas declines or is deemed to have declined to provide a requested Concurrent Enrollment course or program, the local education provider may then partner with an institution of higher education outside of the Commission-approved geographic service area where the local education provider is located to provide the requested Concurrent Enrollment programs or courses. After a local education provider reaches an agreement with an institution outside the Commission-approved geographic service area, the local education provider must provide the Department with the following:

i. A dated copy of the request made in writing to the institution in the local education provider’s geographic service area and an explanation of the institution’s response and/or decision to decline to offer the requested Concurrent Enrollment course or program; ii. A detailed account of the specific Concurrent Enrollment academic programs or courses; and iii. Identification of which institution(s) outside of the geographic service area the local education provider plans to partner with to offer the requested Concurrent Enrollment programs or courses.

5.02 When an institution of higher education provides a Concurrent Enrollment course or program outside of its service area pursuant to this policy, it shall be funded in the same manner as Concurrent Enrollment courses and programs offered within the institution’s service area and shall be treated as on-campus instruction.